NHER 65889 (Monument record) - Undated ditches

October 2017-March 2018. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of site on proposed route of onshore cable for Norfolk Vanguard and Boreas Offshore Wind Farms (Area F80).
This survey of the central and eastern portions of the site identified no potentially archaeologically-significant anomalies.
A number of scattered discrete dipolar anomalies are likely to represent ferrous objects on or close to the surface (most likely modern debris). The remaining discrete anomalies are all of probable geological origin.
There was therefore no evidence for surviving sub-surface remains associated with a number of fragmentary cropmarks subsequently mapped at this location (part of a group of undated but possibly Iron Age to Roman features recorded as NHER 67066).
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 September 2024.

May 2020-January 2021. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of site on proposed route of onshore cable for Norfolk Vanguard and Boreas Offshore Wind Farms (Area F129).
This survey of a block at the western edge of the site also identified no potentially archaeologically-significant anomalies.
A number of scattered discrete dipolar anomalies are likely to represent ferrous objects on or close to the surface (most likely modern debris). The remaining discrete anomalies are all of probable geological origin.
There was therefore no evidence for surviving sub-surface remains associated with a north-north-west to south-south-east aligned cropmark mapped at this location which is one of several thought to represent elements of a much more extensive boundary ditch of medieval to post-medieval date (NHER 67068).
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 September 2024.

October 2020-June 2021. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of site on proposed route of onshore cable for Norfolk Vanguard and Boreas Offshore Wind Farms (F128; Trench 252).
This phase of work saw the excavation of a single trench at the western edge of the site, which was positioned to coincide with the cropmark thought to represent part of a fairly extensive boundary ditch of medieval to post-medieval date (NHER 67068). This revealed a corresponding ditch, although unfortunately no dating evidence was recovered. A second, similarly-aligned ditch recorded to the east also produced no finds.
An unstratified sherd of late post-medieval/modern pottery was recovered at this location.
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 30 September 2024.